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WomenHeart's All Heart Family Cookbook

Kathy Kastan, Suzanne Banfield, Members of WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, Wendy Leonard

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Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women, killing six times as many as breast cancer. What's worse, too few women realize the dire risk they face.

WomenHeart, the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, is an organization dedicated to helping women heart patients and those at risk for heart disease, whether they know it or not. Through an extensive support group network, they also help women who have heart disease live normal lives. And because dietary changes are often an important part of the recovery process, when their members gather, the conversation naturally turns to food.

To help spread the news of their work, WomenHeart has created this one-of-a-kind collection that focuses on 40 key foods known to promote heart health that features a number of family-friendly recipes from their members.

Packed with plenty of great-to-wake-up-to dishes like French Toast with Orange Cream and Lemon Blueberry Muffins, it also includes dozens of crowd-pleasing dinner favorites like Revamped Chicken Pot-pie, Beef and Vegetable Stroganoff, and Sesame Salmon with Spicy Cucumber Salad. In fact, in this collection there's a recipe for every occasion, as well as 40 enticing photographs.

Even better, this cookbook includes plenty of desserts, like Flourless Chocolate Cake, Summer Fruit Compote, and Raspberry Buckle, making it easy to see that fighting heart disease can mean indulging in the pleasures good food offers.

Low-Fat Mediterranean Diet: 110 Slimline Recipes for Healthy Eating & A Long Life: Explore The Delicious Tastes Of The Mediterranean With Specially ... Step-By-Step Photographs (The Low Fat)

Anne Sheasby

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Very good recipe book. Nice details. Great photos too. 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

I'm glad I found this book. While there are many wonderful recipes, I especially like the color photography of the dish and the listing of calories, protein, carbs, fat content (by type), cholesterol, sodium, etc for each and every dish. That fact alone is worth so much to me. It is an all around well done publication. I wish all my recipe books were this thorough.

Easy to Change 4 out of 5 stars.
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Having recently been diagnosed with extremely high cholesterol, it was necessary to make some lifestyle changes. Diet was one of them. The mediterranean diet was reccommended. This book made the changes in cooking easy and fun. The recipes are easy to prepare and colorfully and attractively presented. Menus are also suggested. Several recipes have become my new favorites. This book is the cornerstone of my switch becasue it was necessary to also reduce fat in my diet and some of the recipes in the Mediterranean diet, while delicious, are also high in fat calories. Not in my book!

Editorial Review:

Eat better and live longer with the naturally low-fat low-cholesterol diet of the Mediterranean, with expert advice and 110 deliciously healthy recipes

Cooking up Fun for Kids with Diabetes

Patti B. Geil, Tami A. Ross

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Answer to a Mom's Prayer 5 out of 5 stars.
15 of 15 people found this review helpful.

I was delighted to read about this cookbook in my local newspaper and ran out to buy a copy right away. My eleven year old daughter was recently diagnosed with diabetes, so this book about nutrition/healthy cooking is an answer to my prayers. In addition to the fun and great-tasting recipes with complete nutrition information, there are clear explanations about the type 1 and type 2 diabetes conditions and even some fun "non-food" projects. My daughter and I spent a weekend afternoon in the kitchen making Fruit Filled Quesadillas- messy, but fun!

Editorial Review:

Here are simple, fun, healthy recipes and activities for kids with diabetes that they can make themselves or with their parents.

Recipes and projects help kids understand the importance of food to their health. Includes:

• Recipes that teach children about the link between diabetes and nutrition
• Hints for parents on managing their children's nutrition
• Creative projects to enrich children's connection to food

Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover: An Accelerated Program of Exercise and Nutrition for Maximum Results in Minimum Time

Bob Greene

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From Bob Greene, bestselling author of Get With the Program!, comes a comprehensive, innovative twelve-week plan for transforming your body inside and out. With Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover, you'll achieve maximum results in a minimum amount of time!

Knowing that great health and fitness begin with the right state of mind, Greene addresses the important emotional issues behind poor exercise and eating patterns and provides the motivational tools needed to achieve your fitness goals, as well as develop practical and beneficial habits for lasting results. You'll be inspired and moved by reading the compelling true-life success stories of real people who have taken the challenge and who have changed their bodies -- and lives -- in ways they never dreamed possible! Whether you're struggling to lose that last ten pounds or searching for a radical weight-loss solution, the twelve-week makeover challenge is the answer to your fitness goals.

After committing to the program, you'll find illustrated step-by-step workout guides for all fitness levels, combining progressive cardiovascular and intensive strength training exercises designed to revitalize your metabolism and get noticeable results fast. Each of the accelerated workouts has been created to energize and invigorate your body and mind while you have fun and trim down in the process! In addition, Greene takes a fresh approach to the question of diets by providing key nutritional guidelines that work in conjunction with any healthy eating plan, and he explains many of the popular diets on the market today to help you choose the one that's right for you.

Finally, there is helpful advice on making the transition back to your everyday life: how to avoid regaining the weight you've lost, and how to maintain healthy exercise and eating habits for life. While many books leave you wondering what to do next, Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover offers enthusiastic and informative hands-on advice and tips beyond eating and exercise, and teaches you how to make your own happiness and well-being the foundation of an active and healthy life.

The Hippy Gourmet's Quick and Simple Cookbook for Healthy Eating

Bruce Brennan, James Ehrlich

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Cooking the Hippy Way: It's as Simple as Following Your Pleasure


Bruce Brennan, the host of the hit PBS show The Hippy Gourmet, travels the globe sampling local, healthy cuisines. The show is a global sensation, airing across the U.S. and in-flight international airlines such as Lufthansa and Swiss Air. Now in a cookbook packed with over 150 recipes, Bruce shows how you can make these easy, delicious dishes using freshly-grown ingredients, in your own home. His vegan, vegetarian, and pescatarian meals will transform your eating experience--and change the world for the better, one meal at a time. Don't miss:

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  AMAZING BREAKFASTS--Enjoy Blueberry Pecan Pancakes that will make you flip!


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  SIMPLE SOUPS--When it's too hot to turn on the stove, taste Cold Cucumber Soup and spend the rest of the day skinny dipping.


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  GLORIOUS BEANS--Try Brazilian-Style Black Beans that'll make you tango.


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  SOLAR PIZZA--Prepare everyone's favorite meal and if the mood strikes, bake it in your homemade solar oven. (It really works!)


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  SHARE THE LOVE DESSERTS--Make Mocha Mousse, a dark and powerful end to your meal that tastes as soft and light as a cloud.

...PLUS SALADS, SANDWICHES, SIDE DISHES, AND MORE!

Dr Gillian McKeith's Living Food for Health: 12 Natural Superfoods to Transform Your Health

Gillian McKeith

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Great book for food buying 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 11 people found this review helpful.

This book gives you clear and concise instructions on what foods to buy, what combinations to buy, and what foods to avoid. While some of the foods may be a tad difficult to acquire, most stores have the majority of foods she recommends. This is not a diet book. This is a book that makes you look at food as fuel rather than comfort or rewards.

Editorial Review:

Overcooked, processed and 'dead' foods play a significant role in causing our poor health and lack of energy. Dr. Gillian McKeith, founder and director of London's prestigious Mc Keith clinic, has identified twelve miraculous 'superfoods', which are packed with powerful nutrients and enzymes which can improve our health. These vital nutrients and enzymes occur naturally but are lacking in Western diets. Dr. Mc Keith identifies nature's 12 most powerful living superfoods - from blue-green algae, the most nutrient-dense food on the planet, to flax, the most efficient provider of essential fatty acids to aloe vera leaves and their extraordinary healing power. These superfoods will heal, improve your digestion, stimulate internal cleansing, nourish your organs and spark cell renewal, to increase your mental and physical energy, balance your body's meridians, enhance sexual desire, improve stamina, boost your immunity - and much more.

Eat Well, Feel Well: More Than 150 Delicious Specific Carbohydrate Diet(TM)-Compliant Recipes

Kendall Conrad

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When her daughter was diagnosed with a dangerous digestive problem that left her weakened and sick, author Kendall Conrad started searching for a way to save her child’s failing health. The answer came when a nutritionist recommended the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD). Created by Elaine Gottschall, this revolutionary program is extraordinarily effective in relieving the debilitating and often painful symptoms of ulcerative colitis, celiac disease, diverticulitis, IBS, Crohn’s disease, and other common ailments. Simply by eliminating virtually all starch and complex sugars and eating a balance of smart carbohydrates, good proteins and fats, and essential vitamins and minerals, many people experience a complete restoration of digestive health. For Conrad’s daughter, the results were incredible. Thrilled with her daughter’s rapid recovery, she began creating recipes for delicious dishes for the whole family, following Gottschall’s guidelines, without sacrificing an ounce of taste or variety.

In Eat Well, Feel Well, Conrad shares more than 150 recipes for quick and easy dishes for casual meals and elegant dinner parties alike. The appetizers and starters range from updated classics like Curried Deviled Eggs with Mango-Currant Chutney to such enticing, exotic fare as Thai Beef Salad with Papaya and Toasted Coconut and Egyptian Red Lentil Soup. Main course ideas include everything from Whole Roasted Red Snapper Stuffed with Fennel and Citrus and Ground Beef Chili with Navy Beans to kid-pleasers such as a simple Cheese Soufflé and Honey-Garlic Chicken Drummettes. Dozens of recipes for snacks, desserts, breakfast dishes, and beverages will help you integrate the SCD way of eating into your family’s lifestyle with ease, grace, and creativity.

If you or someone in your family suffers from a digestive disorder, these wonderful recipes based on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet will revolutionize the way you eat.
Kendall Conrad appeared with Elaine Gottschall, the author of the global bestseller Breaking the Vicious Cycle, to share the story of her daughter’s near-miraculous recovery from a dangerous digestive disorder using the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. She lives with her husband and their two daughters in Montecito, California.

Foraging New England: Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Foods and Medicinal Plants from Maine to Connecticut

Tom Seymour

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Nature's Bounty 5 out of 5 stars.
16 of 17 people found this review helpful.

Tom Seymour, acclaimed as a naturalist from the State of Maine, has written a fascinating survey of nature's bounty. This book is highly recommended to readers with an interest in ecology and the world of nature. The author supplies much hard to find information concerning nature's many hidden treasures: edible plants, medicinal plants, and the like. The book features superb color plates, cross-referencing, and a writing style that says "keep reading...."

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From beach peas to serviceberries, hen of the woods to Indian cucumber, ostrich ferns to sea rocket, this guide uncovers the edible wild foods and healthful herbs of the Northeast. Helpfully organized by environmental zone, the book is an authoritative guide for nature lovers, outdoorsmen, and gastronomes.

The New Farm Vegetarian Cookbook

Louise Hagler, Dorothy R. Bates

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How to make seitan, tofu, soymilk etc. 5 out of 5 stars.
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I am new to vegetarian eating. I have been looking for ways to make some of the foundation items in a veggie lifestyle. this book tells you how to make tofu, soymilk, seitan (or gluten), etc. I was grateful to read how to make them. I know many people would just prefer to buy the ingredients at the store, but there are some of us out there that want to learn how to make the items. It will involve more of my time to make the food, but it will cost much less than to buy it from the store.

Super great for a total vegetarian 5 out of 5 stars.
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I just wanted some good vegetarian dish ideas. This book impressed the heck out of me when it showed you how to make your own tofu, soy milk and other vegetarian stuff. Though I am not a vegetarian, I am amazed with the details on how to make some of the stuff. Oh yeah, and the recipes seem to be easy enough to follow! :)

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A classic book of soy-based recipes from some of the best cooks on "The Farm," an intentional community in rural Tennessee. Features over 250 cholesterol-free recipes for family favorites. Also included are detailed instructions for making tofu and other soyfoods at home, plus comprehensive nutritional information for a vegan diet.

Simple Food for the Good Life: Random Acts of Cooking and Pithy Quotations

Helen Nearing

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Fifty years before the phrase "simple living" became fashionable, Helen and Scott Nearing were living their celebrated "Good Life" on homesteads first in Vermont, then in Maine. All the way to their ninth decades, the Nearings grew their own food, built their own buildings, and fought an eloquent combat against the silliness of America's infatuation with consumer goods and refined foods. They also wrote or co-wrote more than thirty books, many of which are now being brought back into print by the Good Life Center and Chelsea Green. Simple Food for the Good Life is a jovial collection of "quips, quotes, and one-of-a-kind recipes meant to amuse and intrigue all of those who find themselves in the kitchen, willingly or otherwise." Recipes such as Horse Chow, Scott's Emulsion, Crusty Carrot Croakers, Raw Beet Borscht, Creamy Blueberry Soup, and Super Salad for a Crowd should improve the mood as well as whet the appetite of any guest. Here is an antidote for the whole foods enthusiast who is "fed up" with the anxieties and drudgeries of preparing fancy meals with stylish, expensive, hard-to-find ingredients. This celebration of salads, leftovers, raw foods, and homegrown fruits and vegetables takes the straightest imaginable route from their stem or vine to your table. "The funniest, crankiest, most ambivalent cookbook you'll ever read," said Food & Wine magazine. "This is more than a mere cookbook," said Health Science magazine: "It belongs to the category of classics, destined to be remembered through the ages." Among Helen Nearing's numerous books is Chelsea Green's Loving and Leaving the Good Life, a memoir of her fifty-year marriage to Scott Nearing and the story of Scott's deliberate death at the age of one hundred. Helen and Scott Nearing's final homestead in Harborside, Maine, has been established in perpetuity as an educational progam under the name of The Good Life Center.